Thomas M. Wright

Thomas M. Wright

Born: June 22, 1983
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Thomas Michael Wright (born 22 June 1983; Melbourne) is an Australian actor, writer, film director and producer. He is the co-founder (2006) and director of theatre company Black Lung and director of the feature film Acute Misfortune (2019). As an actor he came to attention in Jane Campion's series Top of the Lake, for which he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the (US-Canadian) Critics' Choice Awards. He directed the thriller film The Stranger, which is scheduled to appear at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival.

Movies for Thomas M. Wright...

Sleeping Dogs
Title: Sleeping Dogs
Character: Wayne Devereaux
Released: March 21, 2024
Type: Movie
Roy Freeman, an ex-homicide detective with a fractured memory, is forced to revisit a case he can't remember. As a man's life hangs in the balance on death row, Freeman must piece together the brutal evidence from a decade-old murder investigation, uncovering a sinister web of buried secrets and betrayals linking to his past. With only instincts to trust, he faces a chilling truth - sometimes, it's best to let sleeping dogs lie.
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Title: Barkskins
Character: Elisha Cooke
Released: May 25, 2020
Type: TV
A disparate group of outcasts and dreamers battle to escape their pasts while navigating the brutal frontier hardships, competing interests, and tangled loyalties at the crossroads of civilization: the New World. Based on the novel by Pulitzer-winner Annie Proulx.
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Sweet Country
Title: Sweet Country
Character: Mick Kennedy
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1929, an Australian Aboriginal stockman kills a white station owner in self-defense and goes on the lam, pursued by a posse.
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The Man with the Iron Heart
Title: The Man with the Iron Heart
Character: Josef Valčík
Released: May 25, 2017
Type: Movie
With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
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Title: Outsiders
Character: Sheriff Wade Houghton, Jr
Released: January 26, 2016
Type: TV
A struggle for power and control set in the rugged and mysterious hills of Appalachia, "Outsiders" tells the story of the Farrell clan, a family of outsiders who've been in these parts since before anyone can remember. Living off the grid and above the law on their mountaintop homestead, they'll protect their world and defend their way of life using any means necessary.
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Everest
Title: Everest
Character: Michael Groom
Released: September 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
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Title: The Bridge
Character: Steven Linder
Released: July 10, 2013
Type: TV
A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.
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Title: Top of the Lake
Character: Johnno Mitcham
Released: March 18, 2013
Type: TV
A woman haunted by her past, Detective Robin Griffin, investigates complex and unsettling cases.
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Van Diemen's Land
Title: Van Diemen's Land
Character: Thomas Bodenham
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
The true story of Australia’s most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous journey into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness. A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen’s Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth.
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Title: Rush
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
They are trained to be smarter, tactically superior and technologically advantaged - Melbourne's answer for a cutting edge trend in policing worldwide. Rush was an Australian television police drama that first screened on Network Ten in September 2008. Set in Melbourne, Victoria, it focuses on the members of a Police Tactical Response team. It is produced by John Edwards and Southern Star. On 10 November 2011, as with Network Ten setting out DVD promotions for the finale of season 4, David Knox of TV Tonight has announced that Rush would not return after 4 years, as the next episode would be its last.
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The King
Title: The King
Character: Alfie
Released: May 20, 2007
Type: Movie
The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.
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Title: The Secret Life of Us
Released: July 16, 2001
Type: TV
The Secret Life of Us is an Australian television drama series about the lives of 20-30 somethings living in the early 2000s.
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Zenon: The Zequel
Title: Zenon: The Zequel
Character: Orion
Released: January 12, 2001
Type: Movie
Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.
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Stepsister from Planet Weird
Title: Stepsister from Planet Weird
Character: Cutter
Released: June 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Megan's world is turned upside down when she hears her calm life with her little brother and single mum is about to change. She hears she's soon to have a stepfather and a stepsister. Megan thinks they're a bit weird and is determined to stop the wedding. She discovers they're actually even stranger than she thought - they're from another planet.